Word: crapped
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...comics and blogs do not undergo extensive editing or censorship. Instead, they undergo the intense selection of the audience, subject to their whims and relentless commenting.The future of the “Roflculture” will likely be filled with what can be delicately termed “crap.” As Alex Tew, the creator of the One Million Dollar Homepage, said, he has had many stupid ideas. He put them all out there, and one just happened to become popular. Matt Haughey, the creator of Metafilter, said that “If [there?...
...greatest means of getting to know great characters. Long-running, well-written shows like “Battlestar” have breadth and depth of character that films can’t touch and that rival even the best novels. Yes, there’s lots of crap on TV, no question. But crap shouldn’t prevent you from seeing the good in television, especially as more great shows crop up every day. Watching TV shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of; it should be something to appreciate—a medium unique from...
...deeply (but secretly) pleased every time the Harvard admissions rate loses a point or two—we’re only human, after all. But as far as the rest of the world is concerned, we think that the whole charade of Harvard admissions is a wicked crap-shoot, that denying 93 percent of (presumably) well-qualified applicants the chance at a Harvard education is sinister, and that we need all the transfer students...
...best for poor people. "They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal-Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic... deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would be EXACTLY like them"), I thought, "Oh crap, she's right. I like ALL of that stuff...
...clearly. That’s really part of the writing process, learning how to get to the clear water.5.FM: So are you like Plato in that you think ability and knowledge are already in you and that it’s only a matter of removing the crap in the way?BJ: I do think you have to clear away the crap, but I don’t think that everything you write is already in you. That’s why I don’t really buy into the notion of ‘write what you know...